title: Preventing wounds from healing: a relationship with borderline personality?
abstract: Patients with borderline personality disorder are characterized by ongoing engagement in self-destructive behavior, which may, according to previous studies of samples of convenience, include preventing wounds from healing. In this study, we examined in a consecutive sample of internal medicine outpatients the relationship between borderline personality symptomatology (using two self-report measures for borderline personality) and the phenomenon of prevented-wounds-from-healing. According to two different statistical approaches, there was a statistically significant relationship between positive scores of borderline personality symptomatology on both measures, and prevented wounds from healing. (Int'l. J. Psychiatry in Medicine 2010;40:469-471)
authors.affiliation: Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Randy.sansone@khnetwork.org
authors.forename: Randy A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Sansone
authors.forename: Charlene
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.forename: Michael W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Wiederman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D014945:Wound Healing; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult